Nimono

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Boiled gurnard with ginger, soy sauce, mirin, sugar, sake, and water.

is a simmered dish in Japanese cuisine. A nimono generally consists of a base ingredient simmered in shiru stock and seasoned with sake, soy sauce, and a small amount of sweetening. The nimono is simmered in the shiru over a period of time until the liquid is absorbed into the base ingredient or evaporated. The base ingredient for a nimono is typically a vegetable, fish, seafood, or tofu, or some combination of these. The shiru stock for a nimono is generally dashi. Other than sake and soy sauce, the stock can be further flavored with mirin, sugar, salt, vinegar, miso, or other condiments.

Types

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Boiled seaperch with ginger, soy sauce, mirin, sugar, sake, and water.

• , also : fish, but sometimes vegetables, simmered in a mixture of miso and dashi
• : beef and potato stew, flavoured with sweet soy
• : fish poached in a broth of sweetened dashi, sometimes with miso, also referred to as . The dish first appears in cookbooks in the early 18th century
• : chunks of pork belly stewed in soy, mirin and sake with large pieces of daikon and whole boiled eggs. The Okinawan variation, using awamori, soy sauce and miso, is known as rafuti.
• : Okinawan dish of pork stewed with bone
• : one pot
  • : a winter one pot
• : simmered vegetables (i.e. carrots, taros, lotus root, konnyaku, etc.), simmered-down in soy sauce and water until the liquid is almost gone, almost to dryness.

See also

• Japanese cuisine
• Acqua pazza
• Pot-au-feu
• Eintopf
• Irish stew